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From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story • When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? • A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too.' • Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story

Rosalind Porter's biggest mistake was love • Chicago, 1950. Before Thomas Weaver broke her heart and wrecked her career, Rosalind was a leading atomic researcher. Five years on, she's alone and can barely make ends meet • Which is when Thomas - a shattered man - walks back into her life, begging forgiveness. Rosalind would, and should, say no but for two reasons • First, she still loves Thomas. And, second, Charlie Szydlo • Charlie's a damaged FBI agent who believes Thomas is spying for Russia. He wants Rosalind to find evidence • But this is a dangerous game. Who can she trust? • Thomas, who taught her how to love? Or Charlie, whose pain she yearns to heal?

Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria • 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December' • When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive • Sierva Maria appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health

'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes' • This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices. Here Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts the pivotal events in the city of Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that propelled his non-violent campaign for racial justice from a movement of lunch counter sit-ins and prayer meetings to a phenomenon that 'rocked the richest, most powerful nation to its foundations' • As inspiring and resonant as it was upon publication, Why We Can't Wait is both a unique historical document, and an enduring testament to one man's wise, courageous and endlessly hopeful vision

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the posthumously published Memoirs of the Forties and this spectacular novel of the Depression, Of Love and Hunger - harsh, vivid, louche and slangy it deserves a permanent place alongside Coming Up for Air and Hangover Square

In 1960, fourteen-year-old Laura meets French exchange student, Leon • Her life will never be the same again • Things start to change for Laura - first her moods, and then her body. Laura isn't prepared for what she learns next - and doesn't even know how it could have happened • Sent away to save her family from shame, Laura meets girls just like her, whose families have given up on them - and they become a family for each other at the most difficult time in all their lives • Not suitable for younger readers, discover the brand-new young adult read from one of Britain's favourite authors • A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy, family trouble and unlikely friendships, set in 1960

Three con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous lover; and Bob, the young cockney upstart (who's also falling for Liz). As this uneasy trio's swindles take them from New York high-rises to sixties London, corrupt governments to, finally, the ultimate con in the Middle East, will their luck start to run out?

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today • This is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil • Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and deep, powerful mystery. Collected here are five of his very best tales, 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and the trilogy of stories, 'The Man in the Case', 'Gooseberries' and 'About Love'

Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York • In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee; of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayes's exquisite novella, love - in all its bewildering turns of longing, elation, heartbreak and regret - is dissected with unforgettable honesty and heartbreaking clarity

"Ты можешь заставить эту штуку работать быстрее?" - новая веселая подборка историй и наблюдений от Джереми Кларксона, который снова приводит в порядок наш беспорядочный мир с помощью неподражаемого остроумия • Кто этот джентльмен-фермер, управляющий трактором? • Неужели Джереми превратился в сына земли? • На эти и другие вызывающие недоумение вопросы могут быть даны ответы, а могут и не быть, в последнем томе совершенно непредвзятых размышлений Кларксона о жизни, Вселенной и обо всем, что между ними (за исключением автомобилей - это не одна из его книг о полноприводных автомобилях) • Книга на английском языке • The hilarious new collection of stories and observations from Jeremy Clarkson - setting our off-kilter world to rights with thigh-slapping wit once again

Душераздирающая, интригующая и актуальная история для взрослого читателя о подростковой беременности, проблемах в семье и неожиданных друзьях, действие которой происходит в 1960-м году • Лоре льстит внимание Леона, приехавшего по обмену из Франции. До него у неё не было парней • Однажды Леон проводил её домой, и та ночь навсегда изменила жизнь Лоры • Сначала меняется её характер, потом её тело. Объяснение застаёт Лору врасплох, и она даже не понимает, как такое могло случиться • Семью Лоры этот новый секрет приводит в ужас, и она отвергает её, чтобы избежать позора. Но Лора знакомится с другими такими же девочками, от которых отказались родные, и они становятся семьёй друг для друга в самый сложный период их жизней • Не рекомендуется для детей • Книга на английском языке